We've got the preliminary syllabus for the year long online herb course ready, and here it is! Ifyou've been thinking about taking this course, now is the time to register!
with Darcey Blue French and Sean Donahue November 1, 2010 - October 31, 2011
Plants are our ancestors and teachers.
Throughout history, people have looked to them for healing, guidance, and transformation.
In this year long course, herbalists Sean Donahue and Darcey Blue French will help you connect with the wisdom, magic, and living medicine of the plants growing around you.
Our proposed syllabus is posted below -- but is subject to change.
Tuition will be $75 a month (or $750 if you pay for the entire year in advance.) Students will also be expected to purchase herbs and books for the course.
Please register by October 25 2010- herbalists@brighidswellherbs.com
November
Origins: The Shamanic Roots of Herbalism
Plants as ancestors and teachers
How the plants speak to us
Shamanic journeying
Vitalism and the vital force: the world is alive
Finding a plant ally
Research project: Trace your ally through history and folklore
Samhain
The third harvest
Death and the healer
The underworld
Medicine making: Infusions — hot and cold, long and short
December
Awakening the heart
Anatomy of the spirit — Chinese, Ayurvedic, Celtic, Huna
Three centers of consciousness
Heart-centered consciousness
Plants from a heart-centered perspective
People from a heart-centered perspective
Treating the person, not the condition
Finding your plant ally’s unique personality
Yule
Stories of descent and return
Bringing messages back from the dreamtime
Evergreens
Medicine making: Decoctions
JANUARY
Energetics
Constitutions — Ayurvedic perspective
The body as ecosystem
Samuel Thomson and the Physiomedicalists
Energetics of herbs — hot and cold, wet and dry, stimulating and relaxing
Energetics of conditions — six tissue states
Herbal actions
Energetics of your ally and how your ally effects different constitutions and tissue states
Direction of cure: Moving from center to circumference
Medicine making: Baths and hydrotherapy
FEBRUARY
Nourishment
Primal nutrition
Insulin resistance and metabolism
Food allergies
Sleep
Exercise
Spiritual practice/meditation
Gut ecology
Nutritional deficiencies and supplementation
Conditions of the digestive system: tissue states and the herbs that match them
Imbolc
Brighid of the three fires
Nourishing the three fires
Medicine making: cooking with healing herbs
MARCH
Supporting the Immune System
Understanding the immune system
Nourishing the immune system
Immune modulation vs. immune stimulation
Vectors of transmission
Herbs for acute infection
Herbs for chronic infection
Fevers
Allergies, inflammation, and autoimmunity
Ostara
Rejuvenation
Rising sap, blood types, and Southern folk medicine
Seeds
Medicine making: Herbal vinegars
April
Paths of elimination
The myth of the “herbal detox”
Understanding “spring tonics”
The liver: functions, dysfunctions, and therapeutics
The kidneys: functions, dysfunctions, and therapeutics
Lymph and lymphatic herbs
Medicine making: The art and ethics of wildcrafting
Drying herbs
May
Mental and Emotional Health
The biology of stress
Nourishing the nervous and endocrine systems
Regulating the nervous and endocrine systems
Understanding and easing anxiety
Understanding and easing depression
Heartsickness and soul sickness
Sleep and insomnia
Beltane
Ecstasy vs.Fertility
Aphrodesiacs
Leaves
Medicine making: Tinctures and elixirs
June
Muscles and Bones
Nourishing the muscles, bones, and connective tissues
Herbs, nutrition, and muscular development
Acute injuries to muscles, bones, and connective tissues
Chronic problems of muscles, bones, and connective tissues
Midsummer
Elder, Hawthorn, and the Faery Realm
Flowers
Medicine making: Oils
July
Reproductive Health
Nourishing the reproductive system
Menstruation
Pregnancy
Contraception and fertility
Reproductive health for male bodied people
Menopause and Andropause
Sexual trauma and reproductive health
Medicine making: Salves
August
Circulation
The heart revisited
Hemoglobin and Chlorophyl
Nourishing the heart and blood vessels
Blood pressure
Stress and the heart
Peripheral circulation
Connecting the physical, emotional, and spiritual hearts
Medicine making: Flower essences
Lughnasadh
Honoring the sun
Wild nourishment
Fruits
September
Respiration
Breath
Nourishing and strengthening the respiratory system
Asthma
Acute respiratory infections
Chronic respiratory infections
Medicine making: smoking blends
Mabon
Harvest
Fall planting
Honoring and restoring our medicine places
Roots
October
What kind of herbalist are you?
Ethics for healers
Boundaries, protection, and clearing
Personal consultations on next steps on your path
Sharing of allies’ lessons
Medicine making: formulation
Samhain
The underworld journey revisited
Journeying for healing
Entheogens
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